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Updated and improved IHG Spire Elite benefits

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Top Tier Spires now get a much earlier check-in time.

Emails are being sent out detailing updated perks of IHG’s top tier Spire Elite status. A big one is a new 10am check-in time.  This will be extremely advantageous to those travelers arriving on red-eye flights who’d like to check-in and freshen up. Pretty awesome. This adds to the already guaranteed benefits of 100% bonus on base points, and a very cool feature where you can nominate someone to Platinum Status, or get a boost of 25k point to your own account. Members also receive Hertz Gold Plus Rewards Five Star status.  Here’s a copy of the email being sent out.

 

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4 Comments

  • […] IHG Rewards Club now offers top tier elites 10 a.m. check-in but it’s only subject to availability, not guaranteed (like 8 a.m. check-in for Royal Ambassadors at Intercontinental properties) and doesn’t compare to confirmed early check-in with a 24 hour clock for Starwood 100 night elites, at best it’s similar to Hyatt which offers early check-in to top tier members. […]

  • Tom November 22, 2017

    Still the worst top-tier Hotel status IMO. They need to include free breakfast…

  • SHAY PELEG November 21, 2017

    The question is would this work in practice

  • MG November 21, 2017

    Eh. Worth a post when they add breakfast for Spires which would then make their program competitive.

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